Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-03-10 Thread Jost Tobias Springenberg
Update: After additional consideration and some discussion on the Dragonfly IRC, etc, we have decided to go ahead and put this project on the back burner for now. For one, it may be a while before we can get around to adding disklabel64 support. Also, the Dragonfly community seems to

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-03-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jost Tobias Springenberg schrieb: Offtopic: BTW, is the IRC channel listed anywhere on the page or in any ailing list message ? I did not know that it existed. Yeah, http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailinglists/ Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-03-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, March 10, 2009 12:17 pm, Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: BTW, is the IRC channel listed anywhere on the page or in any ailing list message ? I did not know that it existed. It's mentioned now on the mailing lists page on the dragonflybsd.org website. I added it last week, which is

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-02-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:54:40PM +, Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: Is there any chance of this moving forward ? As mentioned in my previous post I really need this feature :). If you need any help or the like I would be more than happy to help and get this project on track again!

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-09 Thread Jost Tobias Springenberg
Ok, time for me to reply again :). I started developing on this, as I mentioned in the first post. I have a first working interface draft and started to work on the real fdisk implementation by moving in core code from the dfly fdisk implementation I stopped development however when I read

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-08 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:38:45PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :I could put up a binary if anybody wants to play with it. If you guys :are interested in taking it over, making it an official part of :Dragonfly, and updating it for the new disk labels, etc, we were :considering going ahead

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-08 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:12:45AM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Vincent Stemen wrote: If you like what you see and want to include the tools, Chet said he will look into adding disklabel64 support. Also, I will go ahead and work on the planned command line changes I mentioned first

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I could put up a binary if anybody wants to play with it. If you guys :are interested in taking it over, making it an official part of :Dragonfly, and updating it for the new disk labels, etc, we were :considering going ahead and releasing the source. If not, we will :probably hold off and

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-02 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:49:21AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: A few possible gotchas regarding fdisk and disklabels. DragonFly has a 64 bit disklabel feature now (disklabel64), as well as gpt support, but lacks boot support for either. I think the fdisk utility needs to be

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
A few possible gotchas regarding fdisk and disklabels. DragonFly has a 64 bit disklabel feature now (disklabel64), as well as gpt support, but lacks boot support for either. I think the fdisk utility needs to be separate from the disklabel utility. Also as HAMMER moves

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-10 Thread Jost Tobias Springenberg
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:27:49 -0700 Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :just a quick sidenote... while I decided to finally play around with hammer :I had to fiddle around with dragonfly's fdisk implementation and I

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jost Tobias Springenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:27:49 -0700 Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Dillon We could probably use a new fdisk, I think this would be a good project. You may

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-10 Thread Michel Talon
Freddie Cash wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jost Tobias Springenberg Sorry, couldn't tell you about that. I'm just a user of sfdisk, don't know anything about its internals. Apparently it doesn't depend on much: niobe% ldd /usr/local/sbin/sfdisk /usr/local/sbin/sfdisk:

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :just a quick sidenote... while I decided to finally play around with hammer :I had to fiddle around with dragonfly's fdisk implementation and I think it is a mess! :The menu driven mode is horrible, and absolutely

fdisk implementation

2008-07-08 Thread Jost Tobias Springenberg
Hi all, just a quick sidenote... while I decided to finally play around with hammer I had to fiddle around with dragonfly's fdisk implementation and I think it is a mess! The menu driven mode is horrible, and absolutely not self explaining. We should definitely adapt the OpenBSD or newer FreeBSD

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi all, :just a quick sidenote... while I decided to finally play around with hammer :I had to fiddle around with dragonfly's fdisk implementation and I think it is a mess! :The menu driven mode is horrible, and absolutely not self explaining. :We should definitely adapt the OpenBSD or newer